3 senators absent -- John Thune fails to get requisite number of 60 to proceed with Senate Vote on DHS Funding

 51 - 46 with only a single Democrat/independent

[ John Fetterman of PA ] 

voting to let the Senate Majority Leader

JOHN THUNE proceed to overwhelm a

Filibuster - minimum of 60 votes . . .

As it stands,

the Dept. of Homeland Security

will continue to ask its employees

to go without pay during the "shutdown"

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Thursday afternoon

3/12/2026 D.C. Eastern TIME Daylight